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APPLIUATION FILED 51111.19, 1912,

I Patented Oct. L, 1912.

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HERMAN L. DE MOND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Application led January 19, 1912. Serial No. 672,037.

Philadelphia, inthe county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Combs, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to combs and has for an object to provide a combfor drying the hair when the comb is passed therethrough.

The invention embodies among other features a comb body provided with ahandle and having a casing formed thereon, the said casing being adaptedto slidably receive a heating member with means for retaining theheating member in rigid engagement with the casing.

In the further disclosure of the invention, reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings constituting a part of this specification, inwhich similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in allthe views, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device,"showing the heating member in extended position for heating. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal sectional View showing the heating member Withinthe easing. Fig. 3 is ,f a transverse sectional view taken on the line343 in Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the views, I provide a casing 10 havin ahandle 11 secured to one end thereof, t e lower end of the said casingbeing provided with a recess 12, formed by dependin flanges 13, havingtheir inner-` sides lncline to slidably receive a comb body 14. Thecasing 10 is preferably tubularin shape and adjacent the ppen endthereof a depending pin 15 is mounted.

A heating member 16 is mounted to slide within the casing 10, the saidheating member being provided with a longitudlnally extending roove 17in which is received a pin 15, a baie plate 18 being formed at the roarend of the heating member 16, to extendv across the groove, the saidbaffle being adapted to engage the pin 15 when the heating member 16 ismoved into extended position, thus preventing the heating member frombecoming entirely disengaged from the cas- 'Specication of LettersPatent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

ing 10. At the rear end of the casing 10 a dog 19 is pivotally mounted,the said dog being provided with an integral handle 20,'

arranged exteriorly of the casing and adjacent the inner end of thehandle 1l, the said handle being engaged by a spring 21 adapted tonormally retain the d og 19 in locked position. At t-he rear end of theheating member 16 an' upwardly extending locking lug 22 is formed, arecess 23 being provided adjacent the locking lug 22 to receive an endof the dog 19. The locking lug 22 is preferably inclined so that theweight 7"of the heating member will carry the same into engagement withthe dog 19 as will be more fully described. 4

When it is desired to heat the heatin member 16, the operator exerts adownwar pressure onthe-handle 20, thus disenga ng the dog 19 from thelocking lug 22 'an by holding the device downwardly at an incline, theheat-ing member 16 will gravitationally slide into extended position asshown in Fig. 1. The heating member is now subjected to the heat of alamp or the heated, the device is heldupwardlyA at. an incline, and t-heheating member by its '75 like and when the same has lbecome suitablyweight, will gravitationally slide into the casing 10 and the end of thedog 19, passing over the inclined surface of the locking lug 22, willmove into the recess 23 by the action of the spring 21, thus retainingthe heating member in locked positionvwithin the casingb 10. The heatingmember 16 is preferably provided with a lower flattened edge and thelower part of the casing is also slightlyflattened to conform totheflattened edge of the heating member and this constructionin addition tothepin 15 'received inthe groove 17, preventsany rotation of theheating' member relatively to the casing.

I claim f 1. A device of the class described comprising a casing, ahandle for the casing, a comb body secured' to the casing, a heatinmember slidably mounted within the sai casing and means for liJnitin theoutward movement of the heatin mem er.

2. A device of the c ass describedcom- `casing, means for limiting theoutward prsing a casing, a handle for the casing, a- In testimonywhereof I have aixed vmy comb body secured to the @as ng, a heatingsignature in presence of two Witnesses. member Slldably Inounted Wlthlnthe Safld L.

movement of the heating member and means Witnesses: for retalnlng thesold heatlng member in H. S. COHEN, locked posltlon Wlthm the oasmg;PHOEBE COHEN.

